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AOL Blocks 2 Billion Spam/Day

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-just-flat-out-scary dept.

T_moz writes "According to this article AOL has blocked over two billion (2000000000) SPAM emails in one day!" This figure is 70-80% of all mail incoming to AOL users. Utterly insane. Unfortunately, all this blocking means spammers will just send more mail to make up for it until a real solution is found.

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  1. SPAM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    2bn! wow - if, they only had a dollar for each one blocked, they would almost be profitable again.

  2. no wonder by DanIncognito · · Score: 4, Funny

    No wonder I can't get any help with my nigerian bank account problems!

  3. :D by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, the filters are sooo good they blocked all the comments to this story.

  4. Want a solution? by DA_MAN_DA_MYTH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Execute a spammer. It's clean, it's quick, and it's efficient. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

    See if people will keep sending unsolicited email then. Matt Groening had it right with Futurama.

    Computer: "You've got mail!"
    Leela: (Groans)
    Computer: "It's not spam!"
    Leela: Ohhh

    --
    "It takes many nails to build a crib, but one screw to fill it."
  5. Good for them!!! by iwillrefuse · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now, if I could only stop these assholes who send me unwanted CD-Rom's to my home 3 times a month...

  6. Re:That sounds about right.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    About 80% of all my incoming mail is spam.
    And why aren't there any comments on this story?

    80% of them have been blocked...

  7. Did all their servers go down? by bearl · · Score: 0, Funny

    AOL has blocked over two billion (2000000000) SPAM emails in one day!

    So their outbound mail servers went down that day?

    d

  8. 1/2 the solution by totallygeek · · Score: 2, Funny
    for i in `cat ./aolnets`
    do
    iptables -A FORWARD -j DENY -s ${i} -p tcp --destination-port 25
    done

    --
    Click here or here.
  9. Re:That sounds about right.... by dknj · · Score: 2, Funny

    While I'm sure this has been done long before I came up with it, i'm going to still tell my story.. When I first got to college a little under 3 years ago I started getting hit with spam. So, I wrote a script that sent a challenge/response email to the user who sent me mail. All of my friends/family/ebay bidders responded, never a spammer. My name is dknj, I've been spam free for 3 years.

    -dk

  10. Re:Stop Blocking Spam? by Swofx · · Score: 2, Funny

    Post your email address here.
    People will assist you making that experience. Then let us know what solution you came up with.